Los Angeles ? Kenny Gregory of Kansas is among the 30 top candidates for the John R. Wooden Award, it was announced Thursday.
Five schools had more than one candidate: Michigan State (Charlie Bell and Jason Richardson); Duke (Shane Battier and Jason Williams); Arizona (Loren Woods and Michael Wright); Stanford (Casey Jacobsen and Jarron Collins); Illinois (Cory Bradford and Frank Williams), and Tennessee (Vincent Yarbrough and Tony Harris).
Others on the list are Gonzaga’s Casey Calvary, Seton Hall’s Eddie Griffin, Florida’s Udonis Haslem, North Carolina’s Brendon Haywood, Arkansas’ Joe Johnson, UNLV’s Kaspars Kambala, UCLA’s Jason Kapono, Wisconsin’s Mike Kelley, Maryland’s Terence Morris, Connecticut’s Albert Mouring, Notre Dame’s Troy Murphy; Wake Forest’s Robert O’Kelley; Missouri’s Kareem Rush, Cincinnati’s Kenny Satterfield, Syracuse’s Preston Shumpert, Iowa State’s Jamaal Tinsley and Brandon Wolfram of Texas-El Paso.
